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        WOON '96 - CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
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             http://www.sigco.com/woon

"The White OO Nights" - a 2-day international conference focusing on
object-oriented technology, WOON '96, is to be held at St. Petersburg,
Russia, on June 20 and 21, 1996. Object technology experts from West
and East gather together to share their ideas and experiences with each
other at a very special time of year - the White Nights - no darkness
at all - nearly 24 hours of daylight. During the following weekend
there will be an optional sightseeing programme including visiting
the Hermitage and Peterhof (If you stay over the weekend, the
airline fares are rather low).

Up to now many high qualified papers were submitted so that it may even
be necessary to have two parallel sessions. Beside this there is a now
a preliminary tutorial program available. If you want to participate
at the conference you should not delay the registration as the process of
getting a visa is time consuming and you need a official invitation in 
order
to apply for a visa.

Countries where papers were submitted from are:
Russia, Germany, Finnland, United States, Switzerland, France, Austria,
Brasilia and Bulgaria.

The preliminary list of tutorials and special meetings:

     Wolfgang Hesse: Software process model for object-oriented 
development 
     Alexei Kanatov, Oleg Karatcharov: Using Eiffel 
     Dmitry Mastrukov: OO Gui development 
     Bertrand Meyer: title to be announced 
     Richard Mitchell: Software Contracting 
     Frieder Monninger: genericity and inheritance 
     HuiWen Wang, Irina Korya: Developing Smalltalk Application 

 
Conference Co-chairs:
          Dr. Alexander Smolyaninov, St. Petersburg State
              Electrotechnical University
          Alexei Shestialtynov, SIG Computer (Moscow)

Program committee

   Chair: Hans Steffen, University of Darmstadt
          other members: see http://www.sigco.com/woon


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Russia has been (and still is) a major force in most topics - including
computer science.  A surprising number of software development efforts
within the former Soviet Union are using object-oriented programming
and object-oriented design to build production software systems. Major
universities teach object oriented methods and there is some research in 
this
area. Besides this there is much cooperation between Western and Russian
companies and research institutes.

It seems to be the right time for the first international conference in
Russia about object oriented technology. This conference should:

- help East and West to learn from one another
- help to build new connections
- provide the opportunity to present and to learn about
  o the actual state of research in OO technology
  o OO based developments
  o practical experiences with OO


The conference will be held at the St. Petersburg electrotechnical
university. Accommodations will be provided on-site. Additional
accomodations will be available in St. Petersburg.  Airport limousine
service between St. Petersburg Airport and the conference site will be 
provided.
The conference organizers will help you in gathering the necessary visas. 
Please
note that aquiring a visa may take up to several weeks, so don't delay!

Registration fees:                       Before May 1      After May 1
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Conference only (June 20 & June 21)         220                 260
(includes conference fee, a copy of
the conference proceedings and a party
on the night of the 20th on a boat).

Reduced Conference fee for faculty
members and speakers                        120                 160

"Foreigners Kit" - Dinner at the 19th,
Dinner and Lunch at the 20th and 21st,       70                  80
Car service from and to St. Petersburg
Airport.

"Excursion Kit" - excursion by bus to        40                  45
Peterhof and around the town of St.
Petersburg and to the Hermitage including
entrance fee but no food (22nd and 23rd)

Tutorials at the 19th                       250                 290
(including Lunch)

For hotel accomodation have a look into http://www.sigco.com/woon
As there are many visitors at this time in St. Petersburg you should
not delay booking !


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Registration form:

  I wish to attend  (Check box)

  ( )   Conference       ( ) with "foreigners Kit"
  ( )   Tutorial
  ( )   Excursions at 22nd and 23rd

  ( )   I will bring a guest and need an extra boat party ticket
                   (45 $ for each additional participant)

   Name: ________________________________
   Company: _____________________________
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   Plases make a hotel reservation at:
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Send Payment and registration to:

outside Russia:                            in Russia:
SIG Computer GmbH                          contact
D 35619 Braunfels                          alexei@eiffel.ru
Fax: +49 6472 911 031                      Phone: (095) 192 1630
(MC and Visa accepted)                     contact Alexei Shestialtynov